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| woman with nothing, only pain thrown down through time a shattering prism through ages and worlds torn, battered, beaten and abused curled in the corner, step away, stand back horror flies with the ark within the skies of desolation and ice made with years of tears a single prayer rises unchained |
| (C) Liorah Chanah Elishaba Tsabrah |
| the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence ... Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence |
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| Hashem, Hashem, G-d, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in that kindness, particularly that to redeem, the shepherd and truth and who brings it into being |
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| birkat bat kohen true semichah 11 adar-1 5757 |
| identifying worthiness talmud yerushalmi |
| the navi who wishes to remove one mitzvah, even one part of a mitzvah, is a navi sheker & a navi for avodah zarah |
| one over evil with truth shemot 34:6 yonah 4:2 |
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| the cost of doing so may be land |
| On 11 Adar-1 5757, I formally returned to Torah with a mikveh immersion, and under the supervision of a Beit Din. During the reception ceremony following the immersion, I was blessed by the supervising Rabbi, a kohen, with the birkat kohanim concurrent with the laying on of hands upon my head (the posture of semichah). As the birkat kohanim is the third principle of hashra'ah (immersive creative force of the Shechinah), clearly it took and unfolded, and I am indeed a true bat kohen - of the supernal soul through whom the blessing erupts into being, truly. Still carrying today this unblemished memory, taken together with Niddah 30b (if thou keepest it in purity, it is well, otherwise it is taken from thee), suggests a "chesedic" soul of pure atzilutic origin kept pure. |